Visual Thinking for Design

Index

A

Abstractions, and diagrams, 155–156

Action maps, in parietal lobe, 101

Active vision model, and design, 172

Actors, change detection experiment, 1–2

ACT-R software, function, 181

Advertisements

images as symbols, 124

as visualizations, 20

and visual novelty, 122

American Sign Language (ASL), 130

Anderson, John R., 181

Apprehendability

definition, 55

multi-chunk pattern queries, 56

Architects

and diagrams, 155

as sketchers, 158

Arrows, in diagrams, 155–156

Artificial interactive spaces

information access design, 103

naive physics of perception, 102

Artists, and diagrams, 155

ASL, see American Sign Language (ASL)

Attention

basic cycle, 179–180

and color-opponent channels, 73–74

and early processing, 179

and eye movements, 9

and graphic ...